To quote the Museum’s Second Grade Visitors “things change over time”.  Our knowledge about this town where we live grows and grows.  Information which was at one time only available in books, visitors to the Museum may now observe with their own eyes.

Esther Dunn  begins her book “Webster Through the Years” by describing the sites where wandering tribes stopped along Irondequoit Bay during the Archaic Time Period.  This summer we learned that four different groups of  these Hunter/Gatherer groups visited Webster in the vicinity of Salt Road as well.

A collection of arrow heads and spear points from the Museum collected in the vicinity of Salt Road  traveled to Buffalo.   Points from four different hunter/gatherer groups were identified by experts at the Buffalo Museum of Science.  Generous donors have added artifacts from early visitors to this area that we now call Webster.  Stop by for a visit.

Several years ago a caller reported that while visiting a home on Main Street he had noticed a tomb-stone in the basement.  He asked the home owner about it and was told that it had been dug up in the back yard and was probably from the Robb Cemetery which had been located very close to his home.

The tomb-stone is now at the Museum and Nelly Wood’s name appears on the tombstone. We don’t know much about Nellie Wood except that she died in September 1838 at the age of 84 years.  The epithet, which is only partially readable, refers to her as “Mother”.  Census records at that time did not list the names of women.  However, the Penfield/Ontario records for the year 1820 do include the name of Andrew Robb and on the same Census Page are the names of Henry Wood and Benjamin Wood.